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Is Public Service Delivery Obsolete?

Why competition between civil servants, corporations, and non-profits is good for everyone

This Dear Green Place

Our latest last best hope

Promoting Democracy Abroad

Is it the right time for Canada to take on this file?

Bruce Dowbiggin

Bruce Dowbiggin is an award-winning sports journalist based in Calgary and the author of five books, the latest being The Meaning of Puck: How Hockey Explains Modern Canada (Red Deer Press, 2008).

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Svengali on Ice

A sordid drama of family dysfunction, sexual abuse and the national game December 2011
The CBC is said to be perpetually in search of definitive Canadian stories. Perhaps it might consider the sorry tale of former NHL player Mike Danton as a topic for a movie of the week and tell Being Erica to go rest for a spell. If it needs a primer, it can consult Steve Simmons’s book The Lost Dream: The Story of Mike